During practice..

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Okay, here's the situation as of last Monday.

It's band practice time for praise and worship team, but this time things are a little different. The director is in the back room hearing out the auditions for the team, so the rest of the team is up on the stage "practicing." The guitarists are randomly playing, the drummer doing his own thing, and I feel so confused as to what direction we're going in, and I am not perfectly sure who is leading. We did have a "substitute" leader, but it took her a little while for her to get things sorted, so for a little while, drums are going off, the other guitarist is playing waay too loudly for me, I can barely hear my guitar, the soundcheck is an absolute pain, and when practice finally started up (that is, we started working on the songs), we went through kinda quickly (thankfully it wasn't our only practice), and we didn't get the practice for a particular new song we were working on. By the end, I felt absolutely crazy, mad and frustrated > : ( Everyone else was good, but I was on the verge of exploding. I couldn't think straight, I felt like yelling at points, I didn't know what to do with myself. Actually I feel like this everytime the other instrumentalists just go off and do their own thing during downtime.

Is this a normal Aspie thing? When a situation is loud and noisy, to get frustrated and not even be able to think? Actually, I feel that way whenever there's stress, or sometimes when the abnormal or uncertain takes place.

PS - Happy ending; service went well

I felt that way ALL the time during worship practice!

The worst part was, my dads girlfriend ran practice, so her nazi arse had the whole trip to pick on me for ANY little thing I did.

So, when she left, the group was kinda... lost.

Richard and I took over. The two of us alone caint sing for squat, but put us together and it was like a professional. So we basically ran the group. It helped that I had a partner, so I didn't sound like a total dork on stage. And it really only took the one song for the rest of the group to get the hint and listen up. So for the next like, 2 years, I became the de-facto leader of our little group.

Just get one other person to join you. The rest of the herd will follow. Plus you get bonus leadership points with the leader.

sounds like a few rehearsals I've been to. That's why you need a leader.

I used to get bored in practice; I can play by ear, so after a couple of runs, I'd have it down. Drummers and guitarists need to be in tune with themselves, so you're going to have a little noodeling around..

You guys just need to have enough discipline (ok, I'm serious, let's get started) to have things progressing, without going overboard like some bands (you were 5 minutes late for practice, that's a $50 fine).